Tag Archive: SSH

Reset your forgotten iPhone4 SSH password.

Wonderful, I SSH’d to my iPhone 4 this morning to find out I forgot the mobile and root account passwords. Not to worry! We can fix this! Ok this is relatively simple the only problem I ran into was that MobileTerminal crashes under iOS4 so I had to figure out another way to edit the…

Bash History

If your anything like me you spend a lot of time at a bash terminal, weather I’m upgrading this very WordPress blog, or any other sites I run I usually do so over an SSH connection. One thing I come to use quite often is my history. often times I don’t quite recall which switches…

Changing the default MOTD for Ubuntu

so you have your fresh new Ubuntu system and you log in via ssh to be greeted with “Ubuntu comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by applicable law. bla bal bla” so you fire up vim and change the good ol /etc/motd to sometime a little more along the lines of threating…